Today

Picture at left (click for larger view) shows Midge and three friends enjoying a certain wedding which has dominated the news today.

Midge, though an anti-monarchist, bears the couple no ill will and wishes them all happiness as human beings.

Midge's three friends say they liked Kate's frock.

Midge would nevertheless have liked to see occasional news coverage relating to other, less urgent matters. Such as, for example, carnage in Misrata, lethal repression in Deraa, loss of life in the storm stuck south eastern US states, a café bomb in Marakech, an imminent referendum in the UK, the Irish economy...